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After a successful year, the International Saimoe League is back! A new storyline (sort of), new matchups, new contestants, same old insane format. 64 candidates (27 of which have yet to be determined) will face each other in a round robin tourney once again, and with the field becoming so much tougher, new questions arise.

Will a new candidate from a late 2008 anime shock the world, or will a candidate from years past reach legendary status?

Will a candidate participating in her first year find her moment in glory, or will a veteran make a return trip to glory?

Will a necklace winner add a tiara to her collection, or will Fate Testarossa pull off a repeat performance?

All that will be answered in this year long event. The next tiara will be revealed, and sixteen will once again take part in a revelation that will encircle the world. And it all begins here.

If you want to help us out in running this event, visit us @ #ISML on irc.rizon.net

By the way, by moderator rules, there have been some additional rules for this particular thread.

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Absolutely no campaign posts allowed.
This includes posts containing ANY campaign verbiage whether in whole or in part. Contributing to the debate is encouraged, provided you do NOT add "VOTE ABCD!!!" (or similar to the post itself). Simply rebutting another's post or opinion with "XYZ sucks" is totally unacceptable.To be clear:

Please do not create a post with the sole purpose to campaign for a character!

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We want intelligent, decent and fun discussions about the weekly Rounds and the subsequent winners & losers.

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Everyone would already know this, but just in case, you may need to add an exception for threads that is made to discuss moe tournaments like the current 2008 Best/Super Moe Tournament.

So these nominations...
Does participation in nominations require you to participate in the main event?
Because as much as I love Sumomo and would feel bad about not supporting her I'd feel worse about being forced to vote for characters from shows I don't watch or girls who aren't the least bit moe.
(Especially since at the moment I have 4 Kanon (02) characters and 1 Clamp in Wonderland 2 character which isn't a very strong ground to begin with.)

So these nominations...
Does participation in nominations require you to participate in the main event?
Because as much as I love Sumomo and would feel bad about not supporting her I'd feel worse about being forced to vote for characters from shows I don't watch or girls who aren't the least bit moe.
(Especially since at the moment I have 4 Kanon (02) characters and 1 Clamp in Wonderland 2 character which isn't a very strong ground to begin with.)

You are not required to do anything in nominations. I WILL recommend that if you choose to participate in the first half of nominations, have your favorite character placed on the 10 point line to give her your Maximum allowed support. The second half will allow you to vote for one nominee per group or abstain from nominating in any group (as of this version of the rules current as of this post). Any other concerns may be addressed in the contact page of the website or maybe here and have it possibly responded to by other staff members as replies in this thread as well.

Is it too early for this? Or is this just because we really don't about 2008 in the ISML 08 thread anymore?

And no spammy for a few pages at least... I'd like this thread to go as long as the last one with rather little unwanted intrusions/deletions.

27 open spots? Does that including the possible four remaining spots from Super Best Moe?

It is about two weeks early, that's for sure, but with barely any talk around the 2008 thread, I had the choice of either letting it die or keep it alive for a few weeks. I just decided to start the new one now.

27 open slots include the possible four remaining spots from Super Best Moe. The number will be adjusted accordingly if someone not already qualified that passes background check won their way through the final repechage round.

It's not a dream; it's a fact, which can be easily achieved considering her level of popularity/unlimited moe works and all of that would soon be augmented with the upcoming movie.

The movie will help her but like Game said there will be lots of hate voting against her. Even people who have her in a high position of their moe list may decide to not vote much for her because they want to have a different champion this year. So this year probably will be much more difficult to her than the last one.